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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
so going in national tv and saying that cops were whipping black people when they didnt, and not apologizing, is no biggie. they used excessive force Jim with their horses so because they didn't hit them with the reins its ok got it
you don’t think this is a reason why there’s so much violence against cops?
Shocking another conservative Lie .. Policing is a dangerous job during al capone days and still is in 2022 but of course criticisms are seen as violence
fortunately it doesn’t matter what you think. it matters what america thinks, and they’ll make their voices heard in a few months. i like my sides chances. how about you? still living the fantasy that somehow these mind terms are different than what happens historically... and will it be fraud if your big red wave never materializes
your whole party and the entire media, is demonizing cops, who then have a target on their backs. more radicalized nonsense from the party wishing to use the police against their political enemies and the public
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many conservative commentators and organizations have pushed a pro-police, law-and-order narrative. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) declared, “The president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support local law enforcement many of them reflexively defend the police, and see them as the armed servants of the state?
Militarization of the police goes back to the Reagan-era war on drugs when one program informally began giving surplus military equipment from the Pentagon to police departments across the U.S. The initiative, known as the 1033 program, was formally implemented when Congress passed a law in the 1990s.
Post 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security enabled anti-terror grants that police departments across the U.S. could tap into to purchase new military-grade equipment such as armored trucks, ballistics gear and armored personnel carriers. These grants provide even more than the Pentagon surplus program
Departments that received military gear were supposed to use it to prevent terror attacks, but instead, Balko says officers often ended up using the equipment for everyday policing duties.
When police officers dress, train or are armed like a military soldier, he says some officers will start to see themselves as such.
and we see this daily in America
yet House Republicans began Tuesday morning by calling the upcoming inaugural hearing of the chamber’s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol a “sham” and a “political charade
this was their response to police testimony
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he was “booked in all these different meetings.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told reporters he was tied up with a committee hearing.
Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who rose to her position after her predecessor was sacked for criticizing Trump’s role in the attack, declined to say whether she watched.
Rep. Matthew M. Rosendale (R-Mont.) said he did watch — but only the opening statement from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) “I was quite disappointed,” he told ABC News.
they only want to support police when it suits them classic